April 1982 - from my journal

April 1982

1 - Started Zac on carrots

3 - Zac's first tooth on the bottom right

9 - Amanda is 2 years old  25 pounds, 33 1/2 inches long

10 - Mark Kimball wedding

I am going to Aerobics on Wednesdays

16 - WIC

22 - Zac's 2nd tooth

23 - Heath's b-day

24 - Joni's thing - Chuck E Cheeses

26 - Swim lesson for Amanda (Clearfield?)

27 - Relief Society

29 - Get Cable TV

April 4, 1982

So much has happened these past few months.  Rog has a new job in Evanston Wyoming working for Noble Oil on an oil rig.  He really likes it.  I went to work at I.R.S. for a month on swing shift, and now I'm at Browning working from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon every week day.  Getting out of the house helps me allot!  I'm not as depressed as I used to be.  Zac has grownup so much.  He's six months old now.  He's over 16 pounds, and 26 inches long.  He's going to be just like his dad, easy going and even tempered.(now many years later, I'd say he's more like me......high strung, a worrier, can be ornery)  He's really smart and coordinated.  He started crawling at 5 months, and sitting at 5 1/2 months.  That's really early.  He also got his 1st tooth today.  He's way ahead of the girls physically.  He's still blonde as ever, with maybe a titch of reddish.  He smiles so wide, and my Grandpa Reed Dickson says he's the most pleasant baby he's ever been around.

Amanda will be 2 years old in 5 days.  It doesn't seem possible.  She's so cute and spunky.  We've spoiled her rotten!  She's been talking a mile a minute.  Some of her favorite verses and sayings are:

Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree

Old MacDonald had a Farm

Two Little Blackbirds

Here is the Church house

Teensy, Weensy, Spider

Happy Family

Wind the Thread

Patty cake

She's running around all the time, and she still has her blankie and thumb.  Zac means allot to her.  She's always saying "Hi, Bud!"  to him.  She climbs up on the cupboards and helps me cook, and brushes her teeth and washes her hands.  She's been potty trained for about 1 1/2 months.  She really did quite well, and accidents don't happen very often.  She loves to go for walks, Primary, and over to Tonya's.  She calls her TAWHNEE.  Some of her friends are Jennifer and Allison Rees, Melanie Whimpey, Luke and Sara Adams, Kimberly McClellan.  She loves other kids and is happiest when she gets to play with them.  For her birthday I made her a new dress and a jogging suit (burgundy velour).  She also is getting new socks and shoes, and a play tea set and broom.  For Easter we're giving her and Zac some piggy banks.  

Now about me and Rog.  I'm pretty skinny, 120 pounds.  Rog loves his new job, and he's bringing home about $1,000.00 every 2 weeks.  We're hoping to buy some land up here to build on later.  I've been doing allot of sewing.  I made Amanda the prettiest dress. It is red and white with tons of lace and ribbon.  Also I'm making all our summer clothes.  I finally got new keds, (tennis shoes) after 2 years of waiting.  Rog still smokes.  I get nervous about him getting lung cancer.  It's really been publicized lately about the ill effects of tobacco.  I couldn't take working at  I.R.S. and Melinda McMillan told me this part-time job was open at Browning, so I decided to take it.  Kevin Threadgold is  my boss again, and he's really nice.  We aren't going to Disneyland this summer, because Rog can't take off on his new job without working 16 hours a day for a week straight!  It's really disappointing, but we'll probably be doing allot of camping up on Goldfleck (Hardscrabble)  Well, I'm really tired and I guess I"ll end (Yawn)

**We actually did end up going to Disneyland